Dekker Dreyer, Op-Ed: “America is set up for individuals and marriage seems like an afterthought. It’s hardly the foundation of our society, as so many theologians will be quick to tell you. It’s a ghost. It’s a relic. It’s dead and buried and gays aren’t the people who killed it. Marriage has bestowed on me, at a personal level, so many great things. On the societal level it hasn’t done anything a civil union or domestic partnership agreement wouldn’t have done.”
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Marriage is Already Ruined and the Gays had Nothing to do With it.
May 19, 2012 by admin
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Public Overwhelmingly Supports Large Defense Spending Cuts
May 11, 2012 by admin
Jeffery Smith, News Analysis: The average total cut was around $103 billion, a substantial portion of the current $562 billion base defense budget, while the majority supported cutting it at least $83 billion. These amounts both exceed a threatened cut of $55 billion at the end of this year under so-called “sequestration” legislation passed in 2011, which Pentagon officials and lawmakers alike have claimed would be devastating.
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Tavis Smiley Says Fight Poverty With Living-Wage Jobs
May 5, 2012 by admin
Tavis Smiley Says Fight Poverty With Living-Wage Jobs
Isaiah J. Poole, Op-Ed: “What Smiley and West call for is a minimum wage of at least $10 an hour; the current federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. The minimum wage is higher in 18 states and the District of Columbia, but the highest minimum wage in the country is $8.80 an hour, in Oregon. Smiley’s call for living-wage jobs was affirmed today by a new report by the National Employment Law Project that found that Americans are earning less in real terms than they did a year ago.”Category Uncategorized | Tags: | No Comments
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Wisconsin Recall Election a Preview of 2012 Big Money to Come
May 3, 2012 by admin
Suzanne Merkelson, News Report: “Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) is facing a recall election after he pushed through legislation last year that limited public workers’ bargaining rights. And now a special Wisconsin state law that allows recall targets to raise unlimited amounts of money in the early days of the campaign has helped Walker raise an unprecedented amount of money
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By-Norma Warren
April 30, 2012 by admin
Recently I wrote a letter to the editor in a local paper rejecting government involvement in women’s reproductive choices. Afterwards, women eased up to me, speaking softly, saying they liked my letter. I’m pleased, but why are they speaking so surreptitiously ? Is there something wrong with expressing such views ? This is the U.S.A. We women have freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and we have the right to vote. So what is the problem ?
I believe part of it is our dislike of conflict. It’s so uncomfortable. There are often consequences. People get their feelings hurt, relationships die, people lose their jobs, people sue each other. You know how it goes.
But how long are we going to go-along-to-get-along ? While we avoid arguments, our government wages war all over the globe, keeps nuclear subs circling the earth threatening death and destruction, builds nuclear power plants accumulating waste, allows us to be bullied by banks and large corporations, and now attacks our reproductive rights. When are we going to face the fact that our conciliatory habits are not helping ?
We may get the prize for being nice, but will that satisfy our children and grand children when their air is polluted, their food is adulterated, they can’t find jobs which pay a living wage, and our equal rights as women are a thing of the past ?
We women must stand up. We must dare to disagree. We must speak firmly, as we do to disobedient children. Stop destroying the planet ! Stop fighting wars everywhere ! Stop nuclear plants and bombs ! Stop trying to control us !
And I say to my dear sisters………VOTE ! Pay attention to the candidates running for office. Pay attention to the issues. Don’t let the candidates campaign without telling you where they stand. It’s fine if they go to church, have 2.5 children, and went to a famous college. But that’s not enough ! Get on the internet and research. The information is there. You can’t depend on your church, your favorite TV show, or your closest friends. You are responsible for what is happening to your country. If you wait for the nice people to take charge, it’ll never happen. VOTE !
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953
April 26, 2012 by admin
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
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Marijuana Legalization
April 24, 2012 by admin
Hundreds of Economists Agree Marijuana Legalization Could Save U.S Taxpayers $13.7 Billion Per Year
Jonathan Benson, News Analysis: “As many as 60 million Americans are already estimated to be spending upwards of $110 billion a year on marijuana, the vast majority of which ends up in the hands of organized crime units. If marijuana was legalized, honest citizens could grow and sell it instead, which would inject new life into the flailing economy.”Category Uncategorized | Tags: | No Comments
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Watch Us Move Our Millions
April 13, 2012 by admin
Rebecca Leischer, Op-Ed: Student activists and the Responsible Endowments Coalition are urging colleges and universities—some of which have assets comparable to those of a town or city—to move at least a portion of their endowments from Wall Street. The Peralta Community Colleges District in California, with an annual budget of $140 million, has done just that. The district’s board of trustees voted unanimously in November to move its assets into community banks and credit unions. Churches and faith organizations are moving their money too.
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Robert Reich | How did Mitt Make so Much Money and Pay so Little in Taxes?
April 12, 2012 by admin
Robert Reich, Op-Ed: “Now that Mitt Romney is the presumed Republican candidate, it’s fair to ask how he made so much money ($21 million in 2010 alone) and paid such a low rate of taxes (only 13.9 percent). Not only fair to ask, but instructive to know. Because the magic of private equity reveals a lot about how and why our economic system has become so distorted and lopsided – why all the gains are going to the very top while the rest of us aren’t going anywhere.”
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Help if you can!
April 11, 2012 by admin
Save the Date & Sign Up Now for May 8
Volunteers say working the polls is their favorite way to volunteer. Find out why! Join us at the polls on May 8 to turn votes for Drew.
We provide materials, training, and snacks to fuel you as you greet voters.
Sign Up
Shifts are available from 6:30 am to 7:30 pm. The greatest need is often between 4-6:30 pm in most locations, but every minute you spend at a poll helps! RSVP here.Plan ahead: take time or the entire day off work; ask a friend to join you; schedule a babysitter or plan to bring your kids.
Ways to Help this Week:
Canvass – this Thursday
Meet on the front steps at 35 Woodfin Street, downtown Asheville, at 5:30 pm. Bring a friend and go door-to-door with our team. RSVP.Thank you. With your help, we will keep Drew our Register of Deeds and continue to move Buncombe County forward.
Veronika Gunter
Campaign Manager
Drew for DeedsP.S. Please sign up here to volunteer this week, or on May 8.
www.DrewforDeeds.com
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